Ex-BBC man is Johnson spokesman

New London mayor Boris Johnson has hired ex-BBC political correspondent Guto Harri as his director of communications.

Mr Harri, 41, left the BBC earlier this year to work as a consultant for PR company Fleishman Hillard.

But he has now resigned his post to take up his new role at City Hall.

Mr Harri, who was at Oxford University with Mr Johnson, had previously been linked with a job as a spokesman for Tory leader David Cameron.

Mr Harri was at Mr Johnson's side earlier as he held talks with New York mayor Michael Bloomberg at City Hall.

He told BBC Wales: "I have already been in a meeting with Boris and Mayor Bloomberg and there was a lot for Boris to hear that was interesting in relation to getting crime down and getting the office of Mayor more in touch with people.

It will be fascinating - but it won't be about containing Boris - he is a very serious man

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